USPTO Patents Application 09856063

* * Ser. No. 09/856,063

Internal Docket No.PF980079
Customer No. 24498

Listing and Amendments to the Claims

This listing of claims will replace all prior versions, and listings, of claims in the
application:

1 . (Currently Amended) Process A method for managing isochronous
resources in a communication network comprising at least two communication
buses linked by way of a wireless transmission bridge, the bridge comprising for
each bus a real portal connected to [[this]] its respective bus, each portal being
furnished with wireless communication means, wherein the procoss method
comprises the steps of:

modo lli ng modeling the wireless bridge by each real portal in
the form of virtual buses and virtual br i dges portals , oach v i rtua l br i dge compr i s i ng
two so that the modeled wireless bridge comprises only virtual bridges with a
maximum of two virtual portals;

emulating a global register of passband availability for the set
of wireless links of the wireless bridge;

reserving passband with the global register for the virtual
buses representing each wireless link participating in a communication between
two real portals.

2. (Currently Amended) Procoss The method according to Claim 1 ,
wherein a wireless link is modo ll od modeled in the form of a virtual bridge.

3. (Currently Amended) Procoss The method according to Claim 1 ,
wherein a wireless link is modo ll od modeled in the form of a virtual bus.

4. (Currently Amended) Procoss The method according to Claim 1 ,
wherein a group of wireless links linking a group of portals having complete
connectivity w i thin a b i ggor notwork w i th part i a l conn e ct i v i ty is modeled in the form
of a single virtual bus.

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5. (Currently Amended) Froooso The method according to Claim 3,
wherein each real portal emulates;

a virtual portal forming together with the real portal a bridge
linking the communication bus connected to the real portal to a virtual so-called
internal bus also emulated by the real portal;

a virtual bridge for each wireless link with another real portal.

6. (Currently Amended) Prococo The method according to Claim 2,
wherein each real portal emulates:

a virtual portal forming together with the real portal a bridge
linking the communication bus connected to the real portal to a virtual so-called
internal bus also emulated by the real portal;

a virtual portal for each wireless link with other portals of the
wireless bridge, two virtual portals corresponding to the same wireless link
between two real portals forming a virtual bridge representing the wireless link.

7. (Currently Amended) Prooooo The method according to Claim 4,
wh o ro i n it furthormoro comprise further comprising the step of eliminating an
internal bus and virtual portals connected thereto, and of contracting into a bridge
the two orphan portals thus created, in the case where the real portal comprising
the internal bus forms part of a single wireless link.

8. (Currently Amended) Prooooo The method according to Claim 1 ,
wh o roin it furthormoro compr i ooo further comnri*in q the step of determining, by
each real portal, the set of wireless links between the real portals.

9. (Currently Amended) Prooooo The method according to Claim 8,

wherein the step of determining the set of wireless links comprises the steps of:

identifying, by each real portal, the other real portals whose
data reach it directly;

transmission destined for all the other real portals of the
wireless network, of the list of real portals with which a direct link exists;

reception of the list compiled by each of the other portals.

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1 0. (Currently Amended) Procoss The method according to Claim 1 ,
whoro i n i t also compr i sos further comprising the step of emulating a register of
availability of isochronous channels for each virtual bus.

1 1 . (Currently Amended) Proc e ss The method according to Claim 1 ,
wherein the step of reserving passband with the global register comprises the
i nst i gat i ng sending of a request for reserving passband [[with]] to a manager of
isochronous resources of a virtual bus and for transmitting the request by the said
manager of isochronous resources of the virtual bus to a software module
managing the global register of passband availability.

1 2. (Currently Amended) Procoss The method according to Claim 1 ,
wherein the bridge comprises at least three portals.

13. (New) A method for managing isochronous resources in a
communication network comprising more than two communication buses linked by
way of a wireless transmission bridge, the bridge comprising for each bus a portal
connected to this bus, each portal being provided with wireless communication
means, the method comprising the steps of:

- providing a global register of passband availability for the set of
wireless links of the wireless bridge;

- reserving passband with the global register for each wireless link
participating in a communication between two portals.

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